The earliest attested forms of the name are the Mycenaean Greek, " di-we " and, " di-wo ", written in the Linear B syllabic script.
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Within an attested language, particular word forms which are directly known to have been used because they appear in the literature, inscriptions or documented speech are called "'attested forms " '.
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Not only the typological development of Old to Middle Indo-Aryan, but already the phonological development from Pre-Vedic to Vedic ( including even the oldest attested form in the Rig-Veda ) is suggestive of Dravidian influence.
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The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym, " a-re-ka-sa-da-ra " ( transcribed as " Alexandra " ), written in the Linear B syllabic script.
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:: : : Turning now to Nuckelavee, its etymology is filed under " neugle " in the SND, and Orkeyjar opined that nuckelavee is a corruption of knoggelvi, which differs in nuance from the SND which only states these are two attested forms.
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"' Mycenaean Greek "'is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland, Crete and Cyprus in Mycenaean Greece ( 16th to 12th centuries BCE ), before the hypothesised Dorian invasion, often cited as the " terminus post quem " for the coming of the Greek language to Greece.
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The comparanda used for translating Tartessian by Koch in Celtic From The West, Tartessian 2 and Celtic From the West 2 are the oldest attested forms of the Celtic languages concerned not Medieval Irish as was claimed by one editor for example he uses Oghamic ( " Primitive " ) Irish then Old Irish if this is not available likewise with the other Celtic languages.
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On the other hand, if Langobardic was still essentially identical to Bavarian or Alemannic at the time, the anachronism would disappear, and in fact, what is attested in Langobardic cannot really be shown to be systematically different in any particular point from the earliest attested form of Bavarian in the 8th century, apart from a few rather minor divergent phonological developments, which, however, seem to postdate the sound shift.
